So, I've installed my game as per the installation guide, and the game itself seems to work alright (no more crashing after the character creation, at least). However, now it seems that the movies make the game crash.

At first, it was trying to skip the movies that caused crashing (clicking while they played or removing the files from the movie folder) but watching them play out would work fine. Now, it's a crapshoot; sometimes watching them play works, other times the game crashes right after it finishes playing the logos, and sometimes it works as intended. At any rate, clicking "disable movies" works every time and I can play the game.

I'm willing to play minus FMVs if that's necessary, but it sure would be a bummer is there any way I can play with the movies without having to run the game a dozen times in a row?

Also, presuming I can play with movies, is there any way they can be viewed in widescreen and not tiny little video mode?

3) Is 640x480 among the supported resolutions in your graphics driver control panel?

4) KotOR 2 supports 1280x768 natively. All you have to do is change the width and height values under both [Display Options] and [Graphics Options] in the swkotor2.ini file.

Yes, the game is patched. I have the UK version, and used the 2-part patch for that version.

I do not have that patch, unless that is supposed to be a part of the aforementioned patch.

I cannot find anything to confirm or deny that in my control panel. I have the Intel HD Graphics 3000 Chipset with the latest drivers and I had thought that, like the flipping policy, it was simply not something the latest drivers had as viewable. I'm not especially savvy, though, so I suppose it's possible I just don't know where to look.

I'll have to try that, then. I wonder if it's not an issue with changing resolutions between gameplay and the FMVs; I can tell the game is not going to crash after the opening FMVs when I get the little message bubble alerting me that the game uses a resolution less than my screen's full resolution. I'll have to do a little experimenting.

EDIT: For clarity's sake, I feel that I should mention that so long as "disable movies" is checked in the configuration menu, the game runs fine. I just played it for a few hours today. It's just that it tends to crash more often than not if the FMVs play, and it always crashes if I try to manually skip it.

After some experimenting, it seems that the game doesn't want to respond to the changes I've made to the .ini file. If I change the display and the graphics options, the game reverts to 800x600 and it only wants to accept changes made by the configuration tool (which only lets me choose 800x600 and 1024x768). If I change the .ini file to not display movies or vice versa it ignores it unless I change the same option in the configuration tool.

EDIT: Scratch that; apparently I've got to move the .ini to my desktop and back for the game to accept my changes. I've never had to do that before, and I've been around the block. The Sith Lords is weird.

EDIT EDIT: More experimentation shows that the game will play in 1280x768 if I change the options in the .ini, but the videos remain in 800x600. The videos still cause crashes, though, and I can't disable them but from the configuration tool. Altering the .ini to do that does nothing.

Put the files you downloaded into the game folder and run the executables. I always set any .exe having to do with these games to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode as an administrator just to be safe. After they're done installing, you can delete them.

"They should rename the team to the Washington Government Sucks. Put Obama on the helmet. Line the entire walls of the stadium with the actual text of the ACA.

Fix their home team score on the board to the debt clock, they can win every game 17,000,000,000,000 to 24. Losing team gets taxed by the IRS 100%, then droned."

Put the files you downloaded into the game folder and run the executables. I always set any .exe having to do with these games to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode as an administrator just to be safe. After they're done installing, you can delete them.

Still no luck. Oh, well, it's no big loss. I can still play anyways, which is further than some people ever get. Thanks for the help, though.

Oh, that was the very first thing I downloaded. In fact, I ordered my PC copy last week when I saw that the 1.8 version was out. I'm a veteran of KOTOR II on the Xbox, and I just had to see the game in a complete state.

In fact, related anecdote: The first time I ever played KOTOR II was when I rented it from a local store. The disc was scratched, naturally, but the game played without a hitch except for the fact that it wouldn't show the FMVs. Since it was the first time I'd ever played it I couldn't tell the difference except for the fact that I was pretty confused in some scenes. However, the game would freeze when you try to go to the merchant quarter on Onderon, making it unplayable. I rushed out the next day and bought a copy.

Yes, I installed the game, made sure that it ran by playing through the prologue once (after spending an hour or so fooling around with the FMVs to see if they were in fact causing the crash) and then I downloaded TSLRCM 1.8 and have been playing ever since. The FMVs still cause crashes, though.

I played 20 hours cumulatively, for a single playthrough. Across that, I could probably count on one hand the number of times the game crashed randomly, for a reason that I couldn't readily determine. It played fairly well.

And, no, my computer doesn't overheat. I can feel it venting more heat than otherwise, as is typical with games, but at no point did my computer experience any performance issues due to overheating.